Example sentences of "[pers pn] stood [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I stood as the Green Party candidate in May 1988 and 1989 . |
2 | I stood over the other side of the road from it and watched . |
3 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
4 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
5 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
6 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
7 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
8 | I stood on the round wall and wound the handle as fast as I could , but when the bucket was still just out of reach , the rope kept slipping so I could not reach the bucket . |
9 | When my holiday had the goodness to be over , I stood on the usual rush-hour bus and read a schoolboy 's comic strips over his shoulder . |
10 | I stood on the final tee with Ken Schofield and imagined the kind of pressure build-up the players were feeling . |
11 | As I stood on the tufted grass , surrounded by natural beauty , I felt as if I 'd come to another world |
12 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |
13 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
14 | I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain . |
15 | I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne . |
16 | Oh , I stood outside the primary school this morning and spoke to the other mothers , and none of them want anything to do with it . |
17 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |
18 | For a while I stood by the shattered doorway , wondering what to do . |
19 | I stood by the open window and the dogs licked my hands as I listened . |
20 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
21 | I stood in a white wilderness , and perceived that to gather wood for burning in such conditions was not easy . |
22 | I stood in the slanting sunlight , warm and yellow around me , the stench of burning flesh and grass on the wind , the smoke rising into the air from burrows and cadavers , grey and black , the sweet smell of leaking unburned petrol coming from the Flame-thrower where I 'd left it , and I breathed deeply . |
23 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
24 | I stood in the little clearing round the ruined walls . |
25 | You knew where you stood with the Cold War . |
26 | She stood outside the back door for a moment . |
27 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
28 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
29 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
30 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |